A petition on Change.org has asked Sun editor Dominic Mahon to put an end to showing topless women on page three, reports Roy Greenslade in the Guardian.  

Social blogging platform Tumblr is under pressure from investors to find a business model, says Business Insider.

User-generated photo app Scoopshot (which just published a study it commissioned among WAN-IFRA members) tells Journalism.co.uk how it approaches verification.

The Knight Foundation's Eric Newton describes on Nieman Lab's website the changes he believes journalism schools must adopt. "Without better-equipped graduates, how can we be sure future generations will have the news and information they need to run their communities and their lives?" he asks.

The Times-Picayune has suffered backlash from readers angry at reduced print days, and local advertisers are split over whether print or internet ads are more effective, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Scotland Yard officers arrested Tom Savage, deputy news editor of the Daily Star Sunday and Sunday Mirror crime correspondent Justin Penrose this morning on suspicion of alleged payments to public officials, the Guardian reports.

Nature reporter Quirin Schiermeier describes how an eccentric scientist was able to bring him to Britain's High Court for an article he wrote, and what it says about the country's "antiquated" libel law.

Wikipedia blacked out its Russian site yesterday in solidarity with other Internet companies and human rights activists protesting against a proposed web censorship law that critics say could lead to the building of a great firewall in Russia, The New York Times reports.

WikiLeaks announced today that it has started publishing a trove of more than 2.4 million emails from "Syrian political figures, ministries and companies," known as the #SyriaFiles, dated between August 2006 and March 2012. Journalism.co.uk reports. Read more on the Guardian's Middle East liveblog.

A reporter who was fired from the Kansas City Star last July for using material from press releases in his columns argues that this should not be counted as plagiarism. He is suing McClatchy Newspapers for $25,000 plus damages. Andrew Beaujon reports for Poynter.

"Make awesome stuff now. Don’t wait your turn," and other practical advice for recent journalism school graduates from Ann Friedman, the former editor of GOODMagazine, via Nieman Lab.

Armando Montano, a 22 year-old summer intern at AP in Mexico City, was discovered dead in an apartment building's elevator shaft on Saturday. The Washington Post reports.

The Guardian reports that the number of warnings over press behaviour issued by the Press Complaints Committee has increased, despite a dip attributed to the launch of the Leveson inquiry. Although some complaints were made by celebrities fearing press-intrusion, the majority were lodged by members of the public, “many of whom were grieving because of the death or illness of a child, partner or parent, or the aftermath of an affair.”